1974 VW Golf review

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1974 Volkswagen Golf Review

Volkswagen hits one into the rough. In this transcript of a period review, motoring writer Archie Vicar casts a critical eye over the new Golf, successor to the much-loved Beetle. From The London I…
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I found this today and could not believe how wrong this reviewer got this car. It mentions British makes and models long since gone to the scrap yard and is even disparaging of Toyota and Datsun (Nissan). A good laugh.
 


Churchlanelad said:
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1974 Volkswagen Golf Review

Volkswagen hits one into the rough. In this transcript of a period review, motoring writer Archie Vicar casts a critical eye over the new Golf, successor to the much-loved Beetle. From The London I…
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I found this today and could not believe how wrong this reviewer got this car. It mentions British makes and models long since gone to the scrap yard and is even disparaging of Toyota and Datsun (Nissan). A good laugh.
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To be fair the normal golf’s were a bit dull. It was the original GTi that was the star.
 
I remember being by the pool on holiday in France in the late 70’s and there were two German blokes chatting and telling jokes. One had the punchline “ein Golf GTI”. They fell about laughing.

I’ve always wondered what the joke was.
 
EchoMan said:
I remember being by the pool on holiday in France in the late 70’s and there were two German blokes chatting and telling jokes. One had the punchline “ein Golf GTI”. They fell about laughing.

I’ve always wondered what the joke was.
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Well you pronounce GTI gay-tay-eee in German so probably something about that
 
Boy said:
Did Datsun not have poor reputation till they upped their game on quality and changed their name to Nissan?
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Most Japanese cars had poor reps at first.
I remember a bloke up our street bought a brand new honda civic with his redundancy pay out in about 1979 it lasted about 6 years and was absolutely rusty as hell. Don't think they had thought about the salt we put on the roads at the time.
 
Barry Quizshow said:
Tbh the old fella always had poor cars despite being quite well off. A Talbot Sunbeam and an Austin Allegro estate are two others that I remember him owning.
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Could be worse my old man spent his redundancy money on a 3 year old Marina Estate he scrapped it 5 years later.
And or lasses Father was a salesman for British Leyland cars don't know how he still sleeps at night!
 
Some BL cars were finished in one part of the plant and then with bare metal exposed wheeled across site in the rain to the paint shop.

Rust you say!
 
In Japan they don't use salt on their roads in winter so never thought about the effects salt had on their cars exported to the UK. Mind in them days British made cars weren't rust proofed either.
 
I had a second hand Polo in the mid eighties and was never away from Mill Garages. The parts (compared to my previous Mk1 Ford Escort) were very expensive.
 

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